Papers by Gulzhan Bedelova
In XIII-XIV centuries, Emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Empire provided special attention to artis... more In XIII-XIV centuries, Emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Empire provided special attention to artists, about whose work their enlightened contemporaries talk as about a "revolution" in the art of the time. In this period, culture including pictorial skill as such had not disappeared; it rather turned into a different quality, as it happened with the culture of Yuan period as a whole. The time of Mongol domination was not accompanied by a weakening of the high spiritual tension in Chinese culture: when else, as not in a period of unrest, wars and external pressure a culture suffers not only a shock, but the ultimate spiritual tension? It's more accurate to say that the Mongol time a new system of priorities turned up. For example, the Yuan period easel painting undergoing changes in the level of concentration is often really inferior to its predecessor - Sung painting, as she sometimes is inferior in this respect to its contemporary - Buddhist bronze plastic, that perhaps...
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Papers by Gulzhan Bedelova